on perma-xmas, tea towels, and apple

Thank you for all of your nice comments on the office and for offering help on my Airport Express networking issues. Unfortunately, the problem has been languishing—I haven't had the chance to go back to it since my last post, but I'll shoot one or all of you an e-mail soon.

By the way, the office color scheme being perma-Christmas did cross my mind, but I think the greens being more limey than piney helps modernize it and makes it less overtly yuletide. What happened is that my existing storage boxes and media console already happened to be red, and I had other boxes that were green, so it all kind of fell into place and I decided that I might as well go all the way with it.

To continue with the theme, I'm thinking of getting one of these tea towels to frame and put on the wall.

 Or maybe of these:
Or this one. Just wish the green was chartreuse.

Speaking of apples, I can't wait for the "Back to the Mac" event on Wednesday. I've tired of all this iOS talk of late,, so it's exciting that Apple is finally going back to its roots. I could really really use a new laptop, so I'm crossing my fingers for a MacBook Pro update . . .

All of the tea towels, by the way, come from the brilliantly-named ToDryFor.com. I had a hard time choosing from all of the fun designs they have available.